Off the Deep End and Still Learning to Swim

Bit by bit I've been figuring out the potential of online writing. I've always been something of a traditionalist when it comes to writing, and I have to admit, I still prefer to read words from a book out in the sunshine than inside at a computer.

However, I've finally started taking a deeper look at the creative potential of online writing and publication. Rather than a static, two-dimensional space like a piece of paper, a web-page or blog offers a dynamic, three dimensional sphere with no limit to what you can do with it.

I can send my reader with a single click to almost any other text that exists. Through space, time, whatever. It doesn't matter, there really are no barriers any more. This of course creates its own problems with media ownership, privacy, basic publishing rights and the ownership of ideas...

It's a tricky one.

Anyway, I've gone back over and revised a previous post, A Six-Shooter Beats Four Aces- Part 1.

I've added hotlinks to other story snippets, hoping that the original piece plus the links will come together to create a workable story. It's a bit experimental at this point and the story isn't even finished, but check it out.

Well that's it for now really: my first real attempt at properly utilising the malleable canvas that is The Internet.